'A Good Man is Hard to Find?
Although the Grandmother is ardently Catholic, as Flannery O'Connor herself was, she satirizes the grandmother by representing her as self-centered, dogmatic, and complacent. She never pleads for the lives of her family, but she does plead for her own life, and is ignorant enough to beg the Misfit to turn to Jesus, although to him, Jesus must have seemed like the symbol of everyone who had made him what he was by ostracizing him and pushing him aside.
